update-alternatives broken after installing icedtea-plugin (or even icedtea-netx) in Utopic Unicorn
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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icedtea-web (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Today I removed all icedtea packages and tried to install icedtea-plugin via `sudo apt-get install icedtea-plugin`. It resulted in error message "E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)". Investigation shows that when installing icedtea-netx package following messages are printed to the console:
icedtea-netx:i386 (1.5.1-1ubuntu1) wird eingerichtet ...
update-
update-
update-
update-
update-
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten des Paketes icedtea-netx:i386 (--configure):
Unterprozess installiertes post-installati
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
icedtea-netx:i386
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: icedtea-netx (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-23-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Oct 24 22:22:08 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-24 (944 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
SourcePackage: icedtea-web
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-23 (0 days ago)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.